"FOR HONOUR AND ENGLAND."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15769, 18 November 1914, Page 7

"FOR HONOUR AND ENGLAND."

ENEMY'S INGLORIOUS RETREAT. WINTER IN BELGIUM. BRITAIN'S HUGE WAR BILL NEARLY £1,000,000 PER DAY. GERMAN STAND IN PRUSSIA. Hie Trench newspapers are referring in glowing terms to the British attack on the Prussian Guard at Zohnabeke, near Ypres, which is described as one of the noblest episodes in British annals. The Germans, by concealment of their machine guns, brought the British into a critical position. A charge was ordered, and a colonel at the head of his regiment dashed forward shouting "For honour and England The Prussian Guard fought with great determination for half an hour, hut the British onslaught was irresistible, and finally the Prussians scattered and fled in inglorious retreat. An eye-witness of one of the German attacks on Ypres says the enemy's losses along the front of one square of the British section were 12,000. Hea\v rains and snowstorms have been experienced in Belgium. The armies are reported to be well equipped for w icter. lie German armies in East Prussia are making a stand against the oncoming Russians. Russian reports say the armies are lighting tenaciously. The Germans claim a victory. The House of Commons has agreed to a war credit of £225,000,000, and the raising of another British army of a million men. Mr. Asquith stated that the actual cost of the war was between £900,000 and £1,000,000 a day.